West Penn Today - More Boo Boo's

[Fredbruhn at aol.com]

I know Ed is going to clobber me if I don't get my adjectives, nouns and 
dangling 
participles in order.  He is perfectly correct in this and I just get wound 
up and rolling along not worrying about anything.    

But it is terrific that Ed is taking the time to help us all out who want to 
stay in this time warp of 1952 and earlier.

Yes, I omitted the details on the picture that Ed described, such as the 
destination sign being white on black and reading after Mt. Pleasant - Hecla 
- Youngwood - Greensburg.  A bit of artistic license in several areas.

I took a swag from memory on how far up the hill the line was at Armbrust (my 
spelling error).  When I was talking about the line coming in from Hecla, 
isn't that the 
right of way between the two drives that is east of 819?  I know in looking 
at my photos last last evening that the line after crossing 819 and passing a 
house or two 
did travel a good ways before climbing the grade to start over the long 
bridge.

I have trouble with the road marking system and tend to think of these 
"lesser" roads as county roads.  Most don't have any prefix on the map, also 
the T roads are marked which I assume is Township.  My effort is still to get 
you from point A to point B and not miss anything and conserve as much time 
as possible.

I also hate the spell check in this program, and am going back and load an 
old version of Word Perfect that I was comfortable with.  So like a trip to 
the dentist, I avoid spell check too often.  I'm sorry.

What I have always like about Hecla was the entrance to the wye over the two 
highways behind the house,   the siding beyond the wye and most of the 
earliest films I saw of West Penn contained footage of Hecla and the 
Connellsville terminal.
I saw 280 and 290 cars that looked to be on school runs passing, and of 
course the three car meets.   I am trying to work the entire scene into a 
model layout  but so far only have part of it figured in.  I need to take 
time out from planning and go weather my 700's to look like the beautiful job 
from Mr. Dietrich - or I should say try to come close to his work..

I've still got some comments on the Latrobe line and into Greensburg which 
I'll share in the next few evenings...  


Fred Bruhn